Walter Chapin

Marguerite Namara portrays a young woman who is living with her guardian (a prosecuting attorney) and his mother. Even though her guardian loves her and hopes to marry her, she is infatuated with a South American novelist. She sneaks over to the novelist's home and writes a love note in one of his books. When he discovers he must go back to South America, he asks the girl to accompany him... (All Movie Guide)

This 15 chapter serial is considered to be "the last of the adult serials". Produced in Wilkes-Barre, PA., it has crisp editing, fast action, and carefully lit and composed interiors and lush pictorial exteriors. This is a serial of great complexity with the director, the photographer and title-maker always in absolute control. The extraordinary rhythmic momentum of the film is never lost despite the films complex plot turns. This is the best of the surviving serials from the silent era.